 | Stephen J. Whitfield - 1991 - 214 หน้า
...numbers. In the decade prior to 1950, over 300,000 blacks emigrated from the state of Mississippi. "Your race is adapted to be a race of farmers, first, last, and for all time," President William Howard Taft had informed a group of Negro students in 1909; but this seer... | |
 | Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - 1993 - 380 หน้า
...college that in his opinion the best solution to the race question was emigration and concluded that "Your race is adapted to be a race of farmers, first, last and for all times."17 The election of 1912 highlighted the plight of the Negro. Northern Negroes who were permitted... | |
 | Philip A. Klinkner, Rogers M. Smith - 2002 - 430 หน้า
...object, which meant just about everywhere in America. In any case, Taft explained to a black audience, "Your race is adapted to be a race of farmers, first, last and for all time."5 He also reassured southern whites that the Fifteenth Amendment did not bar their efforts to... | |
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The election of 1912 highlighted the plight of the Negro. Northern Negroes who were permitted to vote could select the regular Republican ticket, which was a vote for Taft, the man who in the preceding four years had demonstrated his inability to cope... 